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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One: Chapter Three, The Disembodied Lady.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What feature of humans does Sacks wonder if Jimmie lacks?
(a) Soul
(b) Long-term Memory
(c) Hearing
(d) Smell

2. If Sacks called his chapters 'studies' what would that mean about his attitude?
(a) He is professional.
(b) He likes his patients.
(c) He is detached from his patients.
(d) He despises his patients.

3. Dr. P cannot recognize what?
(a) Emotions
(b) Faces
(c) Sounds
(d) Pictures

4. Sacks sees his patients as:
(a) Real people
(b) Mere medical files
(c) Crazy
(d) Mere case studies

5. What does Sacks call his chapters?
(a) Chapters
(b) Studies
(c) Sections
(d) Stories

Short Answer Questions

1. After Dr. Sacks and Mr. P part ways, how much longer does Mr. P teach music?

2. What is the technical term of Jimmie G.'s disorder?

3. What additional form of memory can people with Jimmie G.'s disorder lose?

4. What surgery is the main character admitted into the hospital to have?

5. Sacks finds his patients:

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